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Go ahead. Get the tar and feathers. Or I'll stack the wood and bring the matches. Not being a Chicagoan by birth, I know I should just stay away from your sentimentality. If you think ketchup on a hot dog is an act of subversion, so be it. I'm not going to try to change your mind (although ketchup is a tasty condiment, even on hot dogs). But I'm weird in a way that's really not that weird. I like scoreboards that, you know, actually tell you the score of the game. When something in my house is outdated, I generally replace it. If the Cubs wanted to do that with the 76-year-old center-field scoreboard - yes, the iconic scoreboard - here's what I would say: What took you so long?

By Grant Pick. and Grant Pick is a staff writer for the Chicago Reader | February 7, 1993

Consider Unabridged Books, a bookshop on Broadway owned by Ed Devereux. Devereux launched his store in 1983 after noticing that regular booksellers were minimizing gay titles. "I thought a good general bookstore with a strong gay section could do well," he says. He was right. "I'm amazed," he says of his revenues. Unabridged markets 20 wall units full of gay material, openly labeled instead of marked by the euphemisms favored by chain stores, like "gender studies." Still, the homosexual section constitutes only one-eighth of the shop.

Two teenage boys were each ordered held in lieu of $250,000 bail Monday for the weekend armed robbery of Chicago Ald. Tom Tunney (44th) just a block from his office. Brandon Harbin, 16, of the 4900 block of South Princeton Avenue and Pierre Jolly, 16, of the 7100 block of South Parnell Avenue were charged as adults with one count each of armed robbery. According to authorities, the teens, armed with a .22-caliber revolver, approached Tunney at about 1:30 p.m. Saturday in the 3300 block of North Seminary Avenue and demanded his wallet.

A City Council aide who used a phony "44th Ward Official Business" placard to avoid paying to park has resigned, according to the alderman who suspended him this month. Ald. Tom Tunney (44th) suspended Zodak Yonan, a longtime contract employee in the 44th Ward's constituent service office, after the Tribune reported Yonan displayed the homemade sign while parked for hours at an unfed meter in Lakeview. The ruse set off a furious response from neighbors incensed by this year's dramatic increase in public parking meter rates across Chicago.

Street peddlers and performers who work near Wrigley Field voiced their opinions Tuesday to Ald. Thomas Tunney about his proposal to move them about two blocks away from the ballpark. Tunney invited the "peddlers, performers, business owners and residents" to the meeting to offer "constructive criticism." His aides asked reporters and photographers to leave the meeting, but several participants related what was said and one provided a recording of all the remarks. Tunney has said the measure was "a public safety issue" in his 44th Ward, but inside the closed-door meeting, he also acknowledged complaints he received about street vendors from "bricks-and-mortar" businesses whose "costs of doing business are going up."

The cramped, creaking Town Hall police station in Lake View is itself like an old, battered cop who, despite being years past his prime, can't bring himself to retire. And like that grizzled veteran, if it could, the building at Halsted and Addison streets in Lakeview would tell stories about its glory days. Ever hear about the time in 1969 when some nut set off a bomb just outside the station? Or when those crooks running booze for "Bugs" Moran during Prohibition marched toward lockup with bracelets on their wrists and egg on their face?

Chicago Cubs fans going to night and weekend games will be able to park free this upcoming season in a new remote lot with nearly twice as many spaces as the old one at DeVry University, the team announced today. Setting up a new remote lot with 1,000 spaces, compared to 550 spaces at DeVry, was part of the Cubs agreement with Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Ald. Tom Tunney, 44th, to renovate the ballpark and redevelop the surrounding neighborhood at a $500 million cost to the Ricketts family that owns the team.

1. In a story Dec. 19 about the race for 44th Ward alderman, Equality Illinois political director Rick Garcia's position was incorrectly reported. He has suggested that the 44th Ward Regular Democrat group, not Mayor Daley, chose Tom Tunney as alderman to split the gay vote. 2. In a story Feb. 12, a photo caption incorrectly identified members of the hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest. The pictured members are Q-Tip and Jarobi.